2 Corinthians 3:7-18

Christian Standard Bible

New Covenant Ministry

⁷ Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory,^(A) so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside, ⁸ how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? ⁹ For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory. ¹⁰ In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it. ¹¹ For if what was set aside^(B) was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.

¹² Since, then, we have such a hope,^(C) we act with great boldness. ¹³ We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face^(D) to prevent the Israelites from gazing steadily until the end^[a] of the glory of what was being set aside, ¹⁴ but their minds were hardened.^(E) For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant,^(F) the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.^{(G) 15} Yet still today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts, ¹⁶ but whenever a person turns^(H) to the Lord, the veil is removed.^{(I) 17} Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at^[b](J) the glory of the Lord^(K) and are being transformed^(L) into the same image^(M) from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.^[c]